🎮 POOBvsZombies: Tower Defense Java Game

🏆 Best OOP Project — Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito

POOBvsZombies is a fully object-oriented tower defense game inspired by Plants vs Zombies, developed in Java as part of the POOB (Object-Oriented Programming) course. This project blends software engineering best practices, advanced Java skills, and real-time gameplay mechanics to deliver an engaging and technically solid gaming experience.

Note: This is not the complete version of the game. It represents only part of the general game.

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⚙️ Features & Gameplay

• 🧠 AI-Driven Matches: PvE, PvP, and even Machine vs Machine
• 🌻 Real-time combat: Every plant and zombie runs as a thread
• 💾 Save/Load your matches with persistent state
• 🔧 Custom exceptions with error logging
• 💸 Resource & score management system
• 🧟 New plants and zombie types

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• ☕ Java + Maven for build & dependency control
• 🧱 MVC Clean Architecture (Domain, UI, Logic separated)
• 🧬 UML Design: Class & Sequence Diagrams
• 🧪 Testing & Static Analysis with Eclipse + Jacoco
• 🔁 GitHub for version control and teamwork
• 🗃️ Custom Queue-Priority for entity control

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📝 Current Game Elements

Plants:

• Sunflower: Generates suns over time.
• Peashooter: Attacks zombies by shooting peas.
• Wall-nut: Acts as a defensive barrier.
• PotatoMine: Explodes after a delay, eliminating nearby zombies.
• ECIPlant: Unique representation; generates a larger sun.

Zombies:

• Basic: The common, straightforward zombie.
• Conehead: Zombie with a protective cone, offering increased resistance.
• Buckethead: Highly resilient with a bucket as extra armor.
• Brainstein: Remains stationary and generates brains over time.
• ECIZombie: Shoots projectiles (POOmBas) periodically.

These elements are part of an evolving project. Further game features, plants, zombies, and refined rules will be implemented in future versions.

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🚀 Wanna Play? Clone & Run the Game || Download the branch

Here’s how to launch POOBvsZombies on your machine in minutes:

# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/AnderssonProgramming/POOBvsZombies.git
cd POOBvsZombies

# 2. Clean and compile the code
mvn clean
mvn compile

# 3. Package into a runnable JAR
mvn package

# 4. Run the game (if exec plugin is configured)
mvn exec:java

# Or run the JAR manually (replace with actual JAR name)
java -jar target/poobvszombies.jar

🧰 Requirements: Java 8+ & Maven installed

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📸 Including Screenshots

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🔗 Want to learn more? Reach out via:
📧 [email protected]